update on German Shepard:

The German Shepard I talked about earlier, we thought we found his owner, she was not the owner. we gave it to her to give it to her brother, he was extremely well trained. and then we found the owner, he wouldn't feed the dog, she gave him a lecture about how to feed a dog.

Tim Tim

In an earlier post, I told about our guinea pigs, Timothy and Cc. Well, we went on a trip, he was old and ill. I left a long note to the pet sitter about how he may die while we are gone. He died the day we got back. It is so sad to look at the old dead colorless guinea pig, and then look back at young pictures. He died 5/18/09.

Born, somewhere around 2005 or 2004. We got him a year or two old. His poor brother was in shock for a few days.

Tit mouse.

We had a titmouse bird fly into our house today, it was raining so we had the door open to hear the rain. We got some pictures of the bird and it flew up stairs and winded up behind the computer. It took five minutes to get it out from there. and finally sent it out a window.

We also had a German Shepard walk up on our porch a is staying the night. We will give him to the humane society this morning.

pileateds are back

Last year, this same time, I had attracted four Pileated woodpeckers. Those woodpeckers are back for the year, coming to the feeder daily. They have started later than last year, last year they started coming in march. They just started coming here in May. This is a picture of one from last year. Yesterday they came three times. I hope to see them more.

We also have a blue jay nest and all the babies have hatched and are growing their feathers.

Chattanooga TN

I just got back from Chattanooga Tn, it was great.

There was a very long drive there and there were a lot of pretty hills. The drive did get tedious.

When we got there, we mostly laid around all day and watched T.V. We swam at the hotel a little, And went to bed.

The next day, we got up and went to an attraction called "Rock City". It is a very beautiful park with caves and cliffs. The sites were wonderful. And what really made my day was a raptor show going on. They first pulled out two eastern screech owls. those were cute. Then they took out my second favourite bird; the barred owl. It kept trying to fly off the arm. Then there was a broad winged hawk, a red tailed hawk, and then a kestrel. After that, they took out a vulture that thought it was a dog.

Then i got to pet the screech owl!

The next day, we went to the aquarium. The first building was real short, but pretty.

The second building was my favourite. they had birds as well as fish. first all I saw was a rose breasted grosbeak. then in the second room; they had my favourite duck, the hooded Merganser. i got a video of that one.

it was a great weekend.